The Innerwork Dialogues 02: Designing a Spiritual Training Plan

Running On Purpose

“The bad news is that you are falling through the air, there is nothing to hang onto, and you have no parachute.
The good news is that there is no ground.”
~Chögyam Trungpa

We are back in conversation with Kobe Blondeel from In The Zone podcast for another of what we are calling The Innerwork Dialogues. Our goal with these discussions is to begin to attempt to sketch the outline & form of a concrete & practical approach to incorporating & exploring the spiritual path with running.

We cover a lot of ground in this conversation. A few of the

• The Big Picture View
• Training Weaknesses Early & Strengths Late
• Intentions
• Overcoming a Toxic Running Culture
• The Felt Sense
• An Anatomy of Soul
• Staying Open
• Brief & Debrief
• Pattern Recognition & Reversal
• Being in process

In the final 20 minutes, Steve brings forward an actual, real life example of how a spiritual approach (process in this case) can improve an athlete's training & racing experience in potentially evidential ways.
& Kobe discusses how a "failure" experience of trying to run under 20 hours in a recent 100M event, where he finished 4 hours slower than his goal. & yet, he was deeply moved by how he was still possible to tap into the love of the process.
At the end of the episode we ask your to reach out to us if have specific questions or examples so we can use them to help clarify our point.
We hope you are encouraged & inspired by this episode to continue to take risks & dive into your next challenge.
Godspeed, my friends, godspeed.